The present invention relates, in general, to technology applied to
entertainment information devices, such as video game machines or
computer game programs, information devices for representing geo-spatial
information, or information devices for performing three-dimensional
rendering using computer graphics and, more particularly, to a protruded
displacement mapping method, which represents an object as protruding
from a surface. In the image-based protruded displacement mapping method
of the present invention, an intersection point search step of searching
for an intersection point of a surface of a protruding object, defined by
the displacement information, and an observers sight line, and displaying
the shape of the protruding object on the polygonal surface, is
performed. An overflow representation step of adding a separate polygonal
surface and representing a shape of the protruding object, corresponding
to overflow deviating from a boundary of the polygonal surface, on the
added polygonal surface, is performed. A steeply inclined surface step of
detecting a steeply inclined surface in the shape of the protruding
object is performed. A steeply inclined surface correction step of
representing an additional texture on the steeply inclined surface is
performed.